Forms of Awakening: Tibetan Art
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Author: Shear, Jack
For centuries, Tibetan Buddhists have engaged with artworks as objects of veneration, guides for meditation, and tools for teaching. The awakened mind of the Buddha is embodied in the forms of Tibetan Buddhist visual culture. With a rich green clothbound cover and stunning endpapers, 'Forms of Awakening' is three books in one: a full catalogue of the Jack Shear gift of Tibetan art; a scholarly volume of essays; and documentation of the three exhibitions celebrating this exceptional gift.Jack Shear is a photographer and president of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation. He has bestowed more than 60 works of Tibetan art from his collection across three museums: the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, the Frances Lehman Loeb Center at Vassar College and the Williams College Museum of Art. These include traditional 'thangka', as well as other Buddhist devotional objects. The collection and the corresponding exhibitions thus draw a connection between past and present: between concepts of awakening within the body, the built environment and the landscape.
ISBN 9781636811642. DelMonico Books. hb. 320 pages. 165 colour ills. 30.5 x 21.6 cm.
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For centuries, Tibetan Buddhists have engaged with artworks as objects of veneration, guides for meditation, and tools for teaching. The awakened mind of the Buddha is embodied in the forms of Tibetan Buddhist visual culture. With a rich green clothbound cover and stunning endpapers, 'Forms of Awakening' is three books in one: a full catalogue of the Jack Shear gift of Tibetan art; a scholarly volume of essays; and documentation of the three exhibitions celebrating this exceptional gift.Jack Shear is a photographer and president of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation. He has bestowed more than 60 works of Tibetan art from his collection across three museums: the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, the Frances Lehman Loeb Center at Vassar College and the Williams College Museum of Art. These include traditional 'thangka', as well as other Buddhist devotional objects. The collection and the corresponding exhibitions thus draw a connection between past and present: between concepts of awakening within the body, the built environment and the landscape.
ISBN 9781636811642. DelMonico Books. hb. 320 pages. 165 colour ills. 30.5 x 21.6 cm.
available